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we're in freeport, illinois. where a successful company built up by american workers, sensata technologies, is being dismantled and literally shipped to china. equipment's going, too. they want everything. closing this plant will have a ripple effect and freeport is not alone. since 2000, 5.5 million manufacturing jobs have been moved overseas, most of them going to china. that's because since 2000, 50,000, 5-0, 50,000 factories have closed here in america. this week, the government released statistics on state unemployment rates over the past 12 months. think about the recovery. in almost every battleground state, there has been a sizable drop in unemployment. in ohio, for example, the unemployment rate is at 7%. down 1.6% from a year ago. in the state of virginia, it's at 5.9%. in iowa, it's 5.2%. in nevada, it's still high at 11.8%. but it's come down nearly 2% over the past year. now, over the past year, 30 states have seen significant drops in unemployment compared to the national average. we could be doing
we're in freeport, illinois. where a successful company built up by american workers, sensata technologies, is being dismantled and literally shipped to china. equipment's going, too. they want everything. closing this plant will have a ripple effect and freeport is not alone. since 2000, 5.5 million manufacturing jobs have been moved overseas, most of them going to china. that's because since 2000, 50,000, 5-0, 50,000 factories have closed here in america. this week, the government released...
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and the people of illinois are living proof. workers at bain-owned sensata are about to lose their jobs, but they are not going down without a fight. we'll meet one of them next. >>> sherrod brown destroyed his opponent at their first debate. we'll bring you the tape. >>> and mitt romney is throwing the long ball on libya. >> he should be exploiting it. >> coming up, how the president needs to handle the benghazi question at the debate. >>> introduce their transition team and the next bullet out of their meeting was by the way by the end of 2012 all the jobs in this plant will be moved to china. >> welcome back to "the ed show." we first brought you the story of technologies back in july on "the ed show." sensata is a car manufacturing company in freeport, illinois. it's majority owned by bain capital. the company is set to close its illinois factory by the end of 2012 and outsource the jobs to china. it puts workers in a desperate situation. >> they informed us they would be bringing some of the people from china for us to t
and the people of illinois are living proof. workers at bain-owned sensata are about to lose their jobs, but they are not going down without a fight. we'll meet one of them next. >>> sherrod brown destroyed his opponent at their first debate. we'll bring you the tape. >>> and mitt romney is throwing the long ball on libya. >> he should be exploiting it. >> coming up, how the president needs to handle the benghazi question at the debate. >>> introduce...
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and the people of illinois are living proof. workers at bain-owned sensata are about to lose their jobs, but they are not going down without a fight. we'll meet one of them next. >>> sherrod brown destroyed his opponent at their first debate. we'll bring you the tape. >>> and mitt romney is throwing the long ball on libya. >> he should be exploiting it. >> coming up, how the president needs to handle the benghazi question at the debate. [ male announcer ] how do you make america's favorite recipes? just begin with america's favorite soups. bring out chicken broccoli alfredo. or best-ever meatloaf. go to campbellskitchen.com for recipes, plus a valuable coupon. campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. that was me... the day i learned i had to start insulin for my type 2 diabetes. me... thinking my only option was the vial and syringe dad used. and me... discovering once-daily levemir® flexpen. flexpen® is prefilled. doesn't need refrigeration for up to 42 days. no drawing from a vial. dial the exact dose. inject by pushing a
and the people of illinois are living proof. workers at bain-owned sensata are about to lose their jobs, but they are not going down without a fight. we'll meet one of them next. >>> sherrod brown destroyed his opponent at their first debate. we'll bring you the tape. >>> and mitt romney is throwing the long ball on libya. >> he should be exploiting it. >> coming up, how the president needs to handle the benghazi question at the debate. [ male announcer ] how do...
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and the people of illinois are living proof. workers at bain-owned sensata are about to lose their jobs, but they are not going down without a fight. we'll meet one of them next. >>> sherrod brown destroyed his opponent at their first debate. we'll bring you the tape. >>> and mitt romney is throwing the long ball on libya. >> he should be exploiting it. >> coming up, how the president needs to handle the benghazi question at the debate. think twice. with occasional irregularity, things your body doesn't use could be lingering in your system. but activia has been shown in clinical studies to help with slow intestinal transit when consumed 3 times per day. 7 out of 10 doctors recommend activia. and the great taste is recommended by me! ♪ activia and try new activia light. 60 calories and the only leading light yogurt with no added sugar. to compete on the global stage. what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's w
and the people of illinois are living proof. workers at bain-owned sensata are about to lose their jobs, but they are not going down without a fight. we'll meet one of them next. >>> sherrod brown destroyed his opponent at their first debate. we'll bring you the tape. >>> and mitt romney is throwing the long ball on libya. >> he should be exploiting it. >> coming up, how the president needs to handle the benghazi question at the debate. think twice. with occasional...
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from freeport, illinois. mitt romney's utter and complete disregard for the middle class, i think, was on full display last night. he can't make the pitch to the middle class because he doesn't understand them. but there was something else on display last night. and that was the intensity of the president of the united states. that intensity left a lot of supporters very confident. and as i start this broadcast every night, i think they're thinking this. let's get to work. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, who won last night's debate? text "a" for president obama, text "b" for mitt romney to 622639, and you can always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. coming up, former rnc chair michael steele and nyu professor bob shrum. we'll break it all down, the best moments of last night's debate. stay tuned. sleep train's best rest event is ending soon. don't miss your chance to get sleep train's very best mattresses at the guara
from freeport, illinois. mitt romney's utter and complete disregard for the middle class, i think, was on full display last night. he can't make the pitch to the middle class because he doesn't understand them. but there was something else on display last night. and that was the intensity of the president of the united states. that intensity left a lot of supporters very confident. and as i start this broadcast every night, i think they're thinking this. let's get to work. get your cell phones...
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make no mistake, this is not just about freeport, illinois. this is about the future of american jobs and if mitt romney is elected president of the united states, put your seat belt on, there will be more of this. let's bring in the president of the united steelworkers, leo gerard. and i want to point right off the top tonight that this is a nonunion plant in freeport, illinois. mr. gerard, what do you make of this story? first of all, taking down the american flag, forcing workers to train their chinese replacements who make only 99 cents an hour. is this just the perfect story of the race to the bottom line and what it looks like in america? >> i think two things, ed. i think, first, it's exactly the way you characterize it. this is the real mitt romney who doesn't give a good darn about workers and this is really a disgrace to the country to let this happen. he has $8 million invested in this, but ed, he's also got ten other chinese investments. and you remember we did a story not very long ago about another company that had bain investmen
make no mistake, this is not just about freeport, illinois. this is about the future of american jobs and if mitt romney is elected president of the united states, put your seat belt on, there will be more of this. let's bring in the president of the united steelworkers, leo gerard. and i want to point right off the top tonight that this is a nonunion plant in freeport, illinois. mr. gerard, what do you make of this story? first of all, taking down the american flag, forcing workers to train...
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we'll have the latest from freeport, illinois. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using #edshow. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. well, republicans say that there is no war on women, yet every time they open their mouths on abortion, on health care, on pay equity, they prove that they don't have women's best interests in mind. indiana senate candidate richard mourdock's remarks on rape should be a real wake-up call to women. his comments should also be a real wake-up call to republican moderates, if there's any left. right-wing extremists have taken over the party. mitt romney says he supports abortion in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is in danger. his running mate says he supports romney's views, but paul ryan's record tells us differently. he introduced the term "forcible rape" in congressional legislation. as a young congressman, ryan attacked legislation that allowed an exception to save a woman's life. >> the health exception is a loophole wide enough
we'll have the latest from freeport, illinois. share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using #edshow. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." thanks for watching tonight. well, republicans say that there is no war on women, yet every time they open their mouths on abortion, on health care, on pay equity, they prove that they don't have women's best interests in mind. indiana senate candidate richard mourdock's remarks on rape should be a real wake-up call to women....
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just go ask the people in freeport, illinois. those people didn't get a chance to rush the stage and take a swing at somebody who took their job. they just got fired. they got outsourced. if mitt romney becomes president, we shouldn't expect anything different. he's going to play by his own rules and he isn't going to give a damn about any american out there or what they think. that's how he is. just think about that. let's reverse the roles just a little bit. let's just play with this. let's just say that president obama has a son and president obama's son barack jr. goes on talk radio, maybe with some liberal out there and says, you know, i'd really like to take a swing at my dad's opponent, but i know i can't do it because the secret service is there. tell me, you think bill o'reilly would do anything with that? hannity would ignore it, don't you think? "wall street journal," no, they wouldn't editorialize on that at all. they'd all just let it go. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question. do
just go ask the people in freeport, illinois. those people didn't get a chance to rush the stage and take a swing at somebody who took their job. they just got fired. they got outsourced. if mitt romney becomes president, we shouldn't expect anything different. he's going to play by his own rules and he isn't going to give a damn about any american out there or what they think. that's how he is. just think about that. let's reverse the roles just a little bit. let's just play with this. let's...
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today president obama voted in chicago, illinois. it's the first time a sitting president has voted early. i am joined tonight by michael tomasky, he is special correspondent for "newsweek" and "the daily beast." michael, good to have you with us tonight. i want to address this so-called momentum that the romney campaign has. in fact, i think they've actually done a pretty good job, fairly effective job of feeding the narrative that there is some kind of role taking place for them. but was it a false narrative, and do you think it's a false narrative? >> yeah, i think it's a lot of spin, ed. and i wrote this the other day and others have written it since as well. there's no question that romney had momentum coming out of the first debate and there's no question that that momentum lasted for a pretty long time. but that momentum also hit a wall over the course of the past week, over the course of the last several days, and you could see that in particularly in state polls that came out that showed that romney had closed gaps in some p
today president obama voted in chicago, illinois. it's the first time a sitting president has voted early. i am joined tonight by michael tomasky, he is special correspondent for "newsweek" and "the daily beast." michael, good to have you with us tonight. i want to address this so-called momentum that the romney campaign has. in fact, i think they've actually done a pretty good job, fairly effective job of feeding the narrative that there is some kind of role taking place...
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. >> well, we did this broadcast on friday night from illinois. there's a plant that's being shipped overseas sensata, which is connected to the automobile industry. and there's a tire plant that's been saved because of president obama's stance being tough on china with the lawsuit. i think that that story speaks volumes of what is happening across america. just who is talking tough. senator, great to have you with us. >> i saw that show. it was a microcosm of what we're talking about. >> senator sherrod brown, thank you. there's much more coming up, stay with us. >>> there's no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust. trust matters. >> the president and the vice president are heating up in ohio. tonight the latest on the republican voter suppression with state senator nina turner. >>> in wisconsin, tommy thompson airs one of the most disgraceful ads you'll ever see. we'll bring you the latest attack on tammie baldwin. >> and bradley whitford is hitting the stump for the. . he joins me live on "the ed show." hi, i'm amy for downy
. >> well, we did this broadcast on friday night from illinois. there's a plant that's being shipped overseas sensata, which is connected to the automobile industry. and there's a tire plant that's been saved because of president obama's stance being tough on china with the lawsuit. i think that that story speaks volumes of what is happening across america. just who is talking tough. senator, great to have you with us. >> i saw that show. it was a microcosm of what we're talking...
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minnesota, congressman alan west of florida, congressman steve king of iowa, and congressman joe walsh of illinois. congressman walsh, he's a dandy. he's fighting for his political life in a redrawn district favoring iraq war veteran tammy duckworth. here's one of walsh's desperate attacks in their recent debate. >> i was marching in a parade in chaumburg sunday, two days before the democratic convention, when tammy duckworth was on a stage down in charlotte, if you can see the picture, picking out a dress for her debate sunday night. >> walsh was booed. duckworth, who is a war hero, a double amputee as well, had an answer. >> i do sometimes look at the clothes that i wear. but for most of my adult life, i've worn one color, it's called camouflage. >> congressman alan west is a hung favorite of the tea party crowd and is being challenged by a strong democrat, patrick murphy. congressman west campaigned with mitt romney just a few days ago. >> you saw wednesday night was when the opportunity society takes the stage with the dependency society. the opportunity society wins. they believe in creating
minnesota, congressman alan west of florida, congressman steve king of iowa, and congressman joe walsh of illinois. congressman walsh, he's a dandy. he's fighting for his political life in a redrawn district favoring iraq war veteran tammy duckworth. here's one of walsh's desperate attacks in their recent debate. >> i was marching in a parade in chaumburg sunday, two days before the democratic convention, when tammy duckworth was on a stage down in charlotte, if you can see the picture,...